means of subsistence

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substance, essence, means of subsistence, property.

ălĭmentārĭus, a, um, adj. [alimentum], pertaining to or suitable for nourishing (a legal term; in the class. per. only once; later in the lang. of law and in epitaphs).

Adj.: lex, relating to the apportionment of provisions among the poor, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6 Manut.:

causa,

Dig. 2, 15, 8:

ratio,

ib. 48, 13, 4:

res,

Amm. 20, 8; cf. id. 21, 12.—

Subst.: ălĭmentārĭus, i, m., one to whom means of subsistence has been left by will, Dig. 2, 15, 8 al.

annōna, ae, f. [from annus, as pomona from pomum].

In gen., the yearly produce, the annual income of natural products, in the widest sense (cf.:

cibaria annua,

Cato, R. R. 60):

vectigal novum ex salariā annonā,

Liv. 29, 37:

lactis,

Col. 8, 17, 13:

musti,

id. 3, 21, 6; 3, 3, 10.—

Esp.

Means of subsistence, and, for the most part, corn or grain:

annona nisi in calamitate pretium non habet,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98:

vilitas annonae ex summā inopiā et caritate rei frumentariae consecuta est,

id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 44:

uberrimus ager ad varietates annonae horreum populi Romani fore videbatur,

Liv. 7, 31:

clausis annonae subsidiis,

Tac. H. 3, 48 fin.:

provincia annonae fecunda,

id. ib. 1, 11; cf. Suet. Aug. 18:

annonae curam agere,

id. Claud. 18; cf. id. Tib. 8:

praebebant annonam regi,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 4, 7; ib. 4 Reg. 25, 30; ib. Dan. 1, 5 al.—Sometimes contrasted with frumentum, as provisions in gen.: copia frumenti et annona tolerabilis rerum aliarum, a supply, Liv 35, 44.—

1.. Meton., the price of grain or other food:

quom cara annona sit,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 35; id. Stich. 1, 3, 25; Ter. And. 4, 4, 7; Cic. Div. 2, 27 fin.:

annona est gravis,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 53; so Suet. Aug. 25:

incendere annonam,

Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 16:

jam ad denarios quinquaginta in singulos modios annona pervenerat,

Caes. B. C. 1, 52:

nihil mutavit annona,

Liv. 5, 12 (cf. id. 2, 34:

annona vetus): annona acris,

Tac. A. 4, 6:

gravitas annonae,

id. ib. 6, 13:

in annonae difficultatibus,

Suet. Aug. 41:

annona macelli,

id. Tib. 34.—

Trop., the prices, the market:

Qui homines probi essent, esset īs annona vilior,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 140:

Vilis amicorum est annona, bonis ubi quid deest,

cheap indeed is the market of friendship, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 24:

his opibus numquam cara est annona veneni,

Juv. 9, 100.—Hence sometimes,

Dearness: cena hac annonā est sine sacris hereditas, at the present (i. e. high) market-price, at the present dear rate, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 83:

ob annonae causam,

Cic. Dom. 5.—

In milit. lang., provisions, supplies:

necessitas annonam pariter et arma portandi,

Veg. Mil. 1, 19:

annona decem et septem dierum,

Amm. 17, 9.—Hence, meton., the loaves of bread them selves, rations (in this sense only in the plur.): ceteri annonas binas aut ternas accipiebant, [p. 126] Lampr. Alex. Sev. 42; cf. Cod. Th. 7,5.—

Personified, the goddess of the yearly produce:

ANNONAE SANCTAE AELIVS VITALIO, etc.,

Inscr. Orell. 1810.

mātĕrĭa, ae ( gen. materiāi, Lucr. 1, 1051), and mātĕrĭes, ēi (only in nom. and acc. sing., and once gen. plur. materierum, Lact. 2, 12, 1; v. Neue, Formenl. 1, p. 383), f. [from same root with mater, q. v.], stuff, matter, materials of which any thing is composed; so the wood of a tree, vine, etc., timber for building (opp. lignum, wood for fuel); nutritive matter or substance for food (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

materia rerum, ex qua et in qua sunt omnia,

Cic. N. D. 3, 39, 92; cf. id. Ac. 1, 6, 7:

materiam superabat opus,

Ov. M. 2, 5:

materiae apparatio,

Vitr. 2, 8, 7:

rudis,

i. e. chaos, Luc. 2, 8; cf.: omnis fere materia nondum formata rudis appellatur, Cinc. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 265 Müll.:

(arbor) inter corticem et materiem,

Col. 5, 11, 4:

crispa,

Plin. 16, 28, 51, § 119:

materiae longitudo,

Col. 4, 24, 3:

vitis in materiam, frondemque effunditur,

id. 4, 21, 2:

si nihil valet materies,

Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88:

in eam insulam materiam, calcem, caementa, atque arma convexit,

id. Mil. 27, 74:

caesa,

Col. 11, 2, 11; cf. Caes. B. G. 4, 17; 5, 39:

cornus non potest videri materies propter exilitatem, sed lignum,

Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 206:

materiae, lignorum aggestus,

Tac. A. 1, 35:

videndum est ut materies suppetat scutariis,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 35:

proba materies est, si probum adhibes fabrum,

id. Poen. 4, 2, 93: imprimebatur sculptura materiae anuli, sive ex ferro sive ex auro foret, Macr. S. 7, 13, 11. — Plur.:

deūm imagines mortalibus materiis in species hominum effingere,

Tac. H. 5, 5.—Of food:

imbecillissimam materiam esse omnem caulem oleris,

Cels. 2, 18, 39 sqq.; cf. of the means of subsistence:

consumere omnem materiam,

Ov. M. 8, 876; matter, in gen.:

materies aliqua mala erat,

Aug. Conf. 7, 5, 2.—In abstract, matter, the material universe:

Deus ex materia ortus est, aut materia ex Deo,

Lact. 2, 8.—

Esp., matter of suppuration, pus, Cels. 3, 27, 4.—

Transf., a stock, race, breed:

quod ex vetere materia nascitur, plerumque congeneratum parentis senium refert,

Col. 7, 3, 15:

generosa (equorum),

id. 6, 27 init. —

Trop.

The matter, subjectmatter, subject, topic, ground, theme of any exertion of the mental powers, as of an art or science, an oration, etc.: materiam artis eam dicimus in qua omnis ars et facultas, quae conficitur ex arte, versatur. Ut si medicinae materiam dicamus morbos ac vulnera, quod in his omnis medicina versetur;

item quibus in rebus versatur ars et facultas oratoria, eas res materiam artis rhetoricae nominamus,

Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 17:

quasi materia, quam tractet, et in qua versetur, subjecta est veritas,

id. Off. 1, 5, 16:

est enim deformitatis et corporis vitiorum satis bella materies ad jocandum,

id. de Or. 2, 59, 239; 1, 11, 49; id. Rosc. Com. 32, 89; id. Div. 2, 4, 12:

sermonum,

id. Q. Fr 1, 2, 1: materies crescit mihi, my matter (for writing about) increases, id. Att. 2, 12, 3: rei. id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 1:

aequa viribus,

a subject suited to your powers, Hor. A. P. 38:

infames,

Gell. 17, 12, 1:

extra materiam juris,

the province, Gai. Inst. 2, 191.—

A cause, occasion, source, opportunity (cf. mater, II.):

quid enim odisset Clodium Milo segetem ac materiam suae gloriae?

Cic. Mil. 13, 35 (for which shortly before:

fons perennis gloriae suae): materies ingentis decoris,

Liv. 1, 39, 3:

non praebiturum se illi eo die materiam,

id. 3, 46, 3:

major orationis,

id. 35, 12, 10:

criminandi,

id. 3, 31, 4:

omnium malorum,

Sall. C. 10:

materiam invidiae dare,

Cic. Phil. 11, 9, 21:

materiam bonitati dare,

id. de Or. 2, 84, 342:

scelerum,

Just. 3, 2, 12:

seditionis,

id. 11, 5, 3:

laudis,

Luc. 8, 16:

benefaciendi,

Plin. Pan. 38:

ne quid materiae praeberet Neroni,

occasion of jealousy, Suet. Galb. 9:

epistolae, quae materiam sermonibus praebuere,

Tac. H. 4, 4:

praebere materiam causasque jocorum,

Juv. 3, 147:

materiamque sibi ducis indulgentia quaerit,

id. 7, 21.—

Natural abilities, talents, genius, disposition:

fac, fuisse in isto C. Laelii, M. Catonis materiem atque indolem,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 68, § 160:

in animis humanis,

id. Inv. 1, 2, 2:

materiam ingentis publice privatimade decoris omni indulgentia nostra nutriamus,

Liv. 1, 39, 3:

ad cupiditatem,

id. 1, 46; Quint. 2, 4, 7.—Hence, one's nature, natural character:

non sum materia digna perire tua,

thy unfeeling disposition, Ov. H. 4, 86.—

A subject, argument, course of thought, topic (post-Aug.):

tertium diem esse, quod omni labore materiae ad scribendum destinatae non inveniret exordium,

Quint. 10, 3, 14:

argumentum plura significat... omnem ad scribendum destinatam materiam ita appellari,

id. 5, 10, 9:

video non futurum finem in ista materia ullum, nisi quem ipse mihi fecero,

Sen. Ep. 87, 11:

pulcritudinem materiae considerare,

Plin. Ep. 3, 13, 2; 2, 5, 5:

materiam ex titulo cognosces,

id. ib. 5, 13, 3 al. (materies animi est, materia arboris;

et materies qualitas ingenii, materia fabris apta,

Front. II. p. 481 Mai.; but this distinction is not observed by class. writers).

vītālis, e, adj. [vita], of or belonging to life, vital.

Adj.:

caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem,

vital power, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24:

spiritus,

id. ib. 2, 45, 117:

totum corpus vitalis calor liquit,

Curt. 3, 5, 3; 7, 3, 14; 8, 4, 8:

recepto calore vitali,

id. 8, 4, 17; Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 3; Lact. 2, 12, 6:

viae,

i. e. air-passages, Ov. M. 2, 828 aevum, lifetime, life, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14: vita, i. e. true life, Enn. ap. Cic. Lael. 6, 22 (Enn. p. 180 Vahl.):

motus,

Lucr. 3, 560:

lumen relinquere,

i. e. to die, Ov. M. 14, 175 saecla, ages. generations, Lucr. 1, 202:

lectus,

upon which one is laid while alive and is laid out when dead, a death-bed, funeral-couch, Petr. 42: si esse salvum me vis aut vitalem tibi, i. e. remaining or keeping alive, long-lived, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 75; Hor. S. 2, 1, 61; 2, 7, 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 1 fin. —

vī-tāle, is, the means of life, subsistence:

mortiferum vitali admiscere,

Liv. 6, 40, 12.—

vītālia, ĭum, n.

The vital parts, vitals, Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 2; Luc. 7, 620; 9, 743:

capitis,

Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 20:

arborum,

id. 17, 27, 42, § 251:

rerum,

Lucr. 2, 575.—

Graveclothes (cf. supra, lectus vitalis), Sen. Ep. 99, 22; Petr. 77 fin.— * Adv.: vītālĭter, vitally:

vitaliter esse animata,

with life, vitally, Lucr. 5, 145.

vītālis, e, adj. [vita], of or belonging to life, vital.

Adj.:

caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem,

vital power, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24:

spiritus,

id. ib. 2, 45, 117:

totum corpus vitalis calor liquit,

Curt. 3, 5, 3; 7, 3, 14; 8, 4, 8:

recepto calore vitali,

id. 8, 4, 17; Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 3; Lact. 2, 12, 6:

viae,

i. e. air-passages, Ov. M. 2, 828 aevum, lifetime, life, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14: vita, i. e. true life, Enn. ap. Cic. Lael. 6, 22 (Enn. p. 180 Vahl.):

motus,

Lucr. 3, 560:

lumen relinquere,

i. e. to die, Ov. M. 14, 175 saecla, ages. generations, Lucr. 1, 202:

lectus,

upon which one is laid while alive and is laid out when dead, a death-bed, funeral-couch, Petr. 42: si esse salvum me vis aut vitalem tibi, i. e. remaining or keeping alive, long-lived, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 75; Hor. S. 2, 1, 61; 2, 7, 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 1 fin. —

vī-tāle, is, the means of life, subsistence:

mortiferum vitali admiscere,

Liv. 6, 40, 12.—

vītālia, ĭum, n.

The vital parts, vitals, Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 2; Luc. 7, 620; 9, 743:

capitis,

Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 20:

arborum,

id. 17, 27, 42, § 251:

rerum,

Lucr. 2, 575.—

Graveclothes (cf. supra, lectus vitalis), Sen. Ep. 99, 22; Petr. 77 fin.— * Adv.: vītālĭter, vitally:

vitaliter esse animata,

with life, vitally, Lucr. 5, 145.

vītālis, e, adj. [vita], of or belonging to life, vital.

Adj.:

caloris natura vim habet in se vitalem,

vital power, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24:

spiritus,

id. ib. 2, 45, 117:

totum corpus vitalis calor liquit,

Curt. 3, 5, 3; 7, 3, 14; 8, 4, 8:

recepto calore vitali,

id. 8, 4, 17; Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 3; Lact. 2, 12, 6:

viae,

i. e. air-passages, Ov. M. 2, 828 aevum, lifetime, life, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 14: vita, i. e. true life, Enn. ap. Cic. Lael. 6, 22 (Enn. p. 180 Vahl.):

motus,

Lucr. 3, 560:

lumen relinquere,

i. e. to die, Ov. M. 14, 175 saecla, ages. generations, Lucr. 1, 202:

lectus,

upon which one is laid while alive and is laid out when dead, a death-bed, funeral-couch, Petr. 42: si esse salvum me vis aut vitalem tibi, i. e. remaining or keeping alive, long-lived, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 75; Hor. S. 2, 1, 61; 2, 7, 4; Sen. Contr. 1, 1 fin. —

vī-tāle, is, the means of life, subsistence:

mortiferum vitali admiscere,

Liv. 6, 40, 12.—

vītālia, ĭum, n.

The vital parts, vitals, Sen. Ira, 2, 1, 2; Luc. 7, 620; 9, 743:

capitis,

Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 20:

arborum,

id. 17, 27, 42, § 251:

rerum,

Lucr. 2, 575.—

Graveclothes (cf. supra, lectus vitalis), Sen. Ep. 99, 22; Petr. 77 fin.— * Adv.: vītālĭter, vitally:

vitaliter esse animata,

with life, vitally, Lucr. 5, 145.